Word: howlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tips himself over by pulling it out from underneath. Miniature anteaters cry when caught, curl up pathetically with face in paws, uncurl suddenly and nab your arm. Pea-size frogs croak like bullfrogs. One beetle is equipped with amber landing light. A bird sings sophisticated Gershwin melodies. Quanks, opossums, howler monkeys, capybara, sloths, tamarins, uropygi come in all sizes and shapes, display remarkably varied habits...
...English professor had said that other people were going to be there, too, but that didn't disturb Vag. He was going to be very intelligent and professional and show these people that at least one Harvard undergraduate could appreciate productions on a level higher than the Old Howler...
...Harvardman Tunis concluded that the Class of 1911 comprised a "bunch of contented cows" who had accomplished almost nothing. "Of course, "retorted Harvardman Benchley in The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, "any member of 1912 could have predicted this ... as early as 1909." Cracked he: "If I were a calamity-howler, I could show that 72% haven't got $3,-000,000 to their name, 91% can't juggle, and that we haven't had a single President of the U. S." ¶ In the latest report of the Class of 1919, Harvardman Ernest Aldrich Simpson of London...
...rigged out in the yachting costume of an Argentine cowboy, there are sober extras in the middle of a three-day cruise, there are finger print experts smearing powder on beige telephones, there are twenty-eight kisses, and a corpse. One reacts, of course, to the ingenuity of the "howler," somehow reminiscent of that cornet next door. But aside from this, no Kerr is spared in soothing the patronage...
...most of them unreprintable. But few collections, if any, can rival that of Louis N. Seitel of the Brooklyn Public Library who with serious purpose for ten years has combed books as well as periodicals for errors of fact, expression and typography. His trophies number about 10,000. Typical "howler" in the Seitel collection: (from Short Stories of Soviet Russia) "Then, above his eye, a fish flashed out and broke his teeth...